CAMPAIGN DIGEST

ANTI-OBAMA PROTEST: About 25 or so protesters assembled Tuesday across the street from a Chicago restaurant where Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was holding a fundraiser. The mostly Pakistani group chanted anti-Obama slogans in response to Obama's statement last week that he would be willing, if elected president, to launch unilateral military strikes against Al Qaeda havens in Pakistan. The Illinois senator entered the Mysore Woodlands restaurant, at Rockwell Street and Devon Avenue, through the back while the protest occurred across the street.

RICHARDSON ON HEALTH: Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson on Tuesday called for universal health care and unveiled a package costing more than $100 billion. The New Mexico governor, speaking in Des Moines, said he could provide coverage to the 45 million uninsured without raising taxes. Instead, he said preventive care would save billions of dollars and additional money could be diverted from spending on the Iraq war.

SUBJECT OFF-LIMITS: Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani was asked in Davenport, Iowa, whether he was a "traditional, practicing Roman Catholic," and he declined to answer. "My religious affiliation, my religious practices and the degree to which I am a good or not so good Catholic, I prefer to leave to the priests," Giuliani said.

TANCREDO STAYING: Regardless of where Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) places in Saturday's Republican presidential straw poll in Iowa, he says he plans to stay in the race at least through January.